Tourist Attractions in Batam City

In 2010 the City held a Visiting Batam Tour Year titled Visit Batam 2010 - Experience It. Supported by facilities of international standard hotels and resorts and various tourist activities that are arranged in Batam City Calendar of Events Tourism, is expected to ensure the comfort and satisfaction of domestic and foreign tourists during a visit to Batam.Batam City as a tourism city, serves a variety of tourist facilities and beaches of marine tourism, cultural tourism and the arts, shopping, economy travel and conferences, as well as humanitarian tours. Supported by the availability of hotels and resort facilities with an international-class standards and the various events organized in Batam...

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Galang Island Batam, Memory of a Past Tragedy

In 1979, the arrival of Vietnamese refugees to Indonesia becoming increasingly numerous, so it needs to set up a shelter area for them. Galang Island, one of the islands in the Riau Islands, eventually elected to serve as a shelter the refugees. Refugee camp that is now easily achieved thanks to the barelang bridge indeed been abandoned by its inhabitants since 2002. However, historical heritage they left behind this Camp makes interesting historical site to visit.The HistoryAfter the wake of the Vietnam War was over, the conditions in the country became erratic. This makes a lot of Vietnamese people choose to flee to another country to get their lives safer and better. Their arrival to Indonesia...

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Batam Night Life in the Fasting Month of Ramadan

The Batam municipality is allowing nightspots to operate during most of Ramadan only will be closed for nine days with a 3-3-3 format in the month of Ramadan. According to Head of Public Relations of Batam municipality, entertainment venues will be closed the day before Ramadan, Ramadan day 1-2,   Ramadan day 16-18, then the last day and two day after Ramadan. For night spots such as discos, pubs, karaoke bars, night clubs, etc., can be started from 21.00 pm until 2:00 pm. In my opinion, the government's decision to keep open the nightlife in Batam is due to two reasons, namely related to the amount of revenue from the night life entertainment industry and the dilemma that will face...

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